''Surviving Y2K'' was a podcast hosted by

Dan Taberski Dan Taberski is a writer, director, and producer based in New York City. He is best known for hosting investigative journalism podcasts '' Missing Richard Simmons'', '' Surviving Y2K,'' '' Running From Cops'', '' 9/12'' and ''The Line''. Taber ...

and produced by

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and

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Background

The podcast was a six episode documentary that premiered on November 13, 2018. The podcast was hosted by

and produced by

and

. The show was the second in a set of anthologies by Taberski called ''Headlong''—

Missing Richard Simmons ''Missing Richard Simmons'' was an investigative journalism podcast hosted by journalist Dan Taberski and created by Stitcher, First Look Media and Pineapple Street Media. The first episode was released on February 15, 2017, with the following fi ...

was the first. The podcast focuses on the hysteria caused by the Year 2000 problem. The podcast discusses Taberski's own life changing events that occurred that new year. Nicholas Quah of

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described the show as " nny, poetic, and wonderfully written."

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